This is a busy week for Vagari and her crew. We arrived Monday afternoon and splashed at 8:30 Wednesday morning. We have been cleaning, putting systems back together, doing some upgrades, needed maintenance and generally getting ready for sea. Tom Hoffman has joined us for the first few weeks. He is an experienced cruiser with more years and at least twice as many cruising miles on his boat as we have. He sailed on San Francisco Bay with his boat "Persistence" for years. With Tom's advice and help we have done much more than we expected.
The weather has been an issue. We have had two days of mostly light rain and now two days of strong (35 kts) northwest winds. The usual hazard of San Carlos still plagues us, meeting cruising friends for lunch and dinner and overeating. So after a week we need to go sailing.
Our plan is to leave Wednesday at first light and go down the sea off the mainland coast for four or five days. By then the water temperature should be well into the 80's. That should put us hopefully south of Puerto Vallarta. That will be a 600-mile voyage, a record distance for Vagari. This late in the year and this far north the weather windows are short so we will need a little luck for the first three days.
Latest weather looks better that before so we are leaving in the morning. 4:25 PM Tueaday
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